Marquee



W. C. HEIRICH Oct. 22, 1963 MARQUEE 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed July 25, 1960 INVENTOR WILLIAM 6. HE IR/OH ATTORNEY Oct. 22, 1963 w. c. HEIRICH MARQUEE 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed July 25, 1960 W. L MM 6. HElR/GH Oct. 22, 1963 w. c. HEIRICH 3,107,401"

MARQUEE Filed July 25, 1960 s sheet gsheet 5- INVENTQR WILL/AM 6'. IfIE/RICH ATTORNEY United States Patent 3,107,401 MARQUEE William C. Heirich, 515 S. 15th St, Muskogee, Okla. Filed July 25, 1969, Ser. No. 45,018 4 Claims. (Cl. 2057.5)

This invention relates to building materials and more especially to building panel elements that may be used vertically as siding or horizontally as roof material, and to structural elements used therewith, especially structural fascia elements and structural elements to receive and support the ends of the panel elements to form canopies, car ports and other shelters.

The structures of this application are in part improved elements similar to structures disclosed in my application Serial No. 745,856, now abandoned, and, in part are structures disclosed for the first time herein.

One object of the invention is to provide an improved fascia-gutter element.

A further object of the present invention is to provide novel means to secure a canopy, or the like to a building wall.

A still further object of the present invention is to provide novel means to support a canopy, or the like.

Other and further objects and advantages will appear from the following specification taken with the attached drawing, in which like characters of reference designate similar parts in the several views and in which- FIGURE 1 is a fragmentary perspective showing the structure by which a roof or canopy is secured to a building wall.

FIGURE 2 is a fragmentary perspective of an improved fascia-gutter element.

FIGURE 3 is a fragmentary section of the edge portion or eaves, of a roof showing the fascia-gutter of FIGURE 2 in use.

FIGURE 4 is a fragmentary section of a roof showing the element of FIGURE 2 used to support the roof against a building.

FIGURE 5 is a view similar to FIGURE 3 but showing reinforcement in place in the fascia-gutter element to increase its strength under loading as a beam.

FIGURE 6 is a view similar to FIGURE 3 showing a device for use to support a canopy by a stay from the building.

FIGURE 7 is a perspective view of a fascia-gutter device of FIGURE 2 on which is mounted an additional fascia element extending the fascia vertically.

FIGURE 8 is a view similar to FIGURE 7 in which the additional fascia extends outwardly and upwardly.

FIGURES 9 and 10 are fragmentary sections of an end of a panel showing the steps in modifying the shape of a panel end for use in the structure of FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 11 is a plan showing the end of a panel modified as shown in FIGURE 10.

Referring to FIGURE 1, a building wall 1 is to be used to support a roof made up of a plurality of interlocked panel elements 10. Each panel element being in the form of a flat bottomed trough comprising bottom 11 that may be appropriately strengthened by one or more ribs 12, upwardly flared side walls 13 and 14, side wall 13 terminating at its top edge in a horizontal inwardly turned flange 15 and side wall 14 terminating in a horizontally disposed outwardly turned folded flange 16 that is formed to receive the flange 15 of an adjacent panel between its folds.

The plurality of such panels forming a roof, for instance, a marquee, must be secured together in a manner to prevent bending of the assembled panels in a plane normal to the length of the panels, and must be secured to the supporting wall.

Both these requirements are satisfied at the building wall by assembling means 17 that may be, for instance, of extruded aluminum or may be of other suitable material. Element 17 has a flange 18 to overlie and to be secured, by any conventional means such as self-tapping screws 19, to the inter-engaging flanges 1S and 16 of the assembled panel elements 10. Element 17 is also provided with a downwardly extending flange 20, preferably angularly disposed with respect to flange 18 terminating in a relatively narrow portion 21 parallel to flange 18 and so spaced from flange 18 as to engage the bottom 11 of each panel. Relatively narrow portion 21 is secured to each panel bottom 11 by screws, or other fastenings, 19.

It will be noted that the bottoms 11 of the panels as shown in FIGURE 1 have been bent upwardly as seen at 11 to provide a dam at the end of each trough. This bending up of the bottoms, as will be seen and explained below with respect to FIGURES 10 and 11, prevents water, rain for instance, from fiowingout this end of the panels, and forms an angular profile as seen in FIGURE 10. The portions 18, 20 and 21 are preferably arranged to agree with this profile.

Extending away from the assembled elements 10 and away from horizontal flange 18 of element 17 is a short neck 22, extending the length of flange 18, that terminates in a head 23 of semi-cylindrical exterior contour. It will be noted that the greater portion of this semicylindrical head 23 extends below the plane of flange 18.

On wall 1 a strip 24 is fixed by any appropriate means such as fastenings 25 to extend the length of the roof to be secured to wall 1. Along one edge of strip 24 is a groove 26 the inner wall of which is cylindrical and the longitudinal opening of which is narrower than the diameter of the cylinder. The diameters of the exterior of head 23 and of groove 26 are complementary so that head 23 may be received in groove 26.

It will be clear that after panels 10 have been secured together by interlocking flanges 15 and 16, and secured to element 17, this assemblage can be readily mounted on a building, to which a strip 24 has been secured by bringing head 23 up to the opening of groove 26 with the panels 10 sloping sharply down. The horizontal projection of head 23 is then narrower than the opening of groove 26 and the head 23 can be thrust into groove 26 by inserting the portion of head 23 that is below neck 22 into the groove. After the head 23 is in groove 26 the assemblage is tilted upwardly until the panels 10 reach their desired position which provides a fairly flat pitch roof with the end mounted against wall 1 being slightly higher than the end remote from the wall. As the assemblage is tilted upwardly the part of head 23 above neck 22 engages the inside of groove 26.

The plurality of panels 10 assembled into a roof must also be supported at its end remote from wall 1. It is also desirable to provide a gutter at this remote end, which also is slightly lower as pointed out above, to carry rain water to one side where it can be led away by a downspout. Many buildings have such a gutter which is a separate, non-structural element merely secured to a complete roof structure and, in some instances, such gutters are of a decorative shape.

In the present device an element such as seen in FIG- URE 2 is mounted as seen in FIGURE 3 on the free, or remote,'ends of panels 10 assembled to form a roof.

This element 27 shown in detail in FIGURE 2 may be, and preferably is, an extrusion of aluminum, or other suitable material. Element 27 may conveniently be called a fascia-gutter. It serves the purposes of a beam to support the edge of the roof, a gutter to dispose of the rain water falling on theroof, and a decorative element to hide the deeply corrugated roof structure formed of panels 10.

Facia-gutter 27 comprises a deep fascia-face portion 28 that may be of any desired depth. This fascia-face portion will, in the assembled roof, be generally vertical and forms a beam to support the ends of assembled panels 10 between spaced supports secured to fascia-gutter 27. The depth of fascia-face portion 28 will be chosen structurally to supply adequate support, and architecturally to give the appropriate appearance to the structure. Reinforcement of the element 27 may be provided for, as will appear below,

At the top edge of fascia-face 28 an inwardly directed top flange 29 is provided. As seen in FIGURE 3, this flange 29, when the fascia-gutter is assembled on a roof structure is secured to the interlocked flanges 15, 16 by screws 19. On the under side of flange 29 is a stop rib 30 that positions the ends of panels 10 and, as will be seen below, positions reinforcing means for the fasciagutter element.

Extending upwardly and at an angle to the fasciaface 23 is a web 31 that, with fascia-face 28, forms a gutter, as clearly seen in FIGURE 3. At the upper end of web 31 is a flange 32 positioned so that when the panels 10 are in place, and secured to flange 29, bracing flange 32 will contact the bottom 11 of the panels 10 and may be secured thereto by screws 19. A continuous tang 32' interlocks the flange 32 and the panel bottom 11.

Flat portions 33 and 34 may be provided at the juncture of fascia-face 2S and web 31 and at the juncture of web 31 and flange 32 to provide seating for reinforcing devices as will be explained below.

FIGURE 4 shows how the fascia-gutter 27 may be used to support the ends of panels 10 against a building wall instead of the structures shown in FIGURE 1. Fascia-gutter 27 is secured with its fascia-face 28 against wall 1' by means of any conventional securing means 35 and the panels 10 are secured to flanges 29 and 32 as they are in FIG. 3.

One advantage of using fascia-gutter element 27 against a wall is for a small marquee Where it is not desirable to have a down spout lead from the outer corner, or edge of the marquee. The fascia-gutter 27 is clearly adapted to allow desired variations of angularity between it and the panels 10.

Small marquees are often supported at their edges remote from the wall on which they are mounted by a tie rod or tie rods secured to the building wall a substantial distance above the marquee and to the marquee at or near its outer edge by appropriate pad bolted to the marquee structure. FIGURE shows a structure made possible by the structures described above that makes it possible to secured the tie rod 36 to fascia-gutter element 27 with either no fastenings or a minimum of fastenings.

A hanger is provided that comprises essentially a vertical plate portion 37 of limited length to engage betweeen stop rib 3t) and fascia-face portion 28, a strut 33 extending under the bottom of a panel 11 and flange 32, and a strip 39 welded or otherwise secured to plate 37 to extend over the bottom 11 of a panel between the walls 13 and 14 of the panel. A hole 49 may be provided in strap 39 to receive the tie rod 36. Strap 39 may, of course, be configured at its free end in any conventional manner to receive and be secured to any conventional tie rod.

With the weight of the marquee supported by the tie rod it is clear that fastening the hanger 37, 38, 39 to the marquee structure is not essential. If, however, it is desired to secure it to the marquee, self tapping screws, or other securing means may be used. This securing means 19 securing bottom 11 of the panel to flange 32 may also engage strut 38, or fastening means 19 may extend through fascia-face 28 into plate 37.

As pointed out above, the fascia-gutter element 27 along the ends of the assembled panels 10 is a beamlike suport. Fascia-gutter 27 has considerable strength and for normal spans is adequate. Where, however, wider spans are required between whatever supports are used under the fascia-gutter 27, the fascia-gutter may be reinforced as shown in FIGURE 6.

To strengthen fascia-gutter 27, a plate 41 is inserted between stop 30 and fascia-face 23 extending downwardly to seat against the juncture of web 31 and fascia-face 28 at 33. Such reinforcement 41 preferably extends the full length of the span requiring reinforcing. It may also be a reinforcing for a joint between two lengths of fasciagutter 27.

In FIGURE 6 as in FIGURES 25, the fascia-face 28 is provided with external grooves 28' that have edges at the top and bottom and that are approximately at right angles to the face of element 28 but may be slightly dove-tailed to assure retention of decorative strips 42. Strips 42 are of springy sheet material that are bowed outwardly and bear, by their springyness, against the top and bottom walls of grooves 28. These strips may be of different colors as desired to provide decoration for the fascia but, more importantly, they cover any securing means such as screws 19 seen in FIGURE 6 that secure fascia-face 28 to reinforcing plate 41.

Fascia-gutter 27 is also capable of being secured to a panel 10 parallel to the length of the panel, the flange 29 being secured along either flange 15 or flange 16 of the panel and flange 32 being secured to bottom 11 of the panel. It will be understood, therefore, that at the corners of a marquee, roof, etc. made up of panels 10, the fascia-gutter element 27 may be, and preferably is, used to completely frame the panels, the fascia-gutter being mitered at the corners.

FIGURES 7 and 8 illustrate a further reinforcing element for the fascia-gutter 27. This element comprises a fascia-face portion 43 that may have grooves 43' corresponding to grooves 28 to receive strips 42, and has flanges 44'- and 45, one at each longitudinal edge of portion 43. It will be noted that flange 44 is disposed at right angles to fascia-face portion 43 and flange 45 is at an obtuse angle to fascia-face portion 43.

As seen in FIGURE 7, flange 44 is provided with a hook shaped grip portion 46 at its edge to receive the edge of flange 29 of the fascia-gutter element 27 to hold fasciaface 43 in vertical alignment with fascia-face 28 of the fascia-gutter 27.

As seen in FIGURE 8, the flange 45 is provided with a hook shaped grip portion 47 at its edge to receive the edge of flange 29 of fascia-gutter 27 to hold fascia-face plate 43 in angular alignment with the fascia-face 28 of element 27.

Flanges 44 and 45 are each provided with stop elements 4S and 49, respectively, in order to provide for introduction of reinforcing means similar to plate 41 seen in FIGURE 6.

As pointed out above, the panels 10* secured to element 17 each have their bottoms 11 bent upwardly as seen at 11 in FIGURES 1, 10 and 11. This may be done, due to the structure of panels 10, by using a simple .tool 50 in the manner shown in FIGURES 9 and 10.

The panel is cut to length and the end that is to be mounted against the wall 1 by use of element 17 has its bottom 11 bent upwardly by engaging a tool 50 with bottom 11 art the end as seen in FIGURE 9 and swinging the free end of tool Stl upwardly between flanges 15 and 16. Flanges 15 and 16 will resiliently deform during the operation and the end of the side walls 13 and 14 svill be curled inwardly as seen most clearly in FIGURE 11.

Tool 50 comprises a body portion one end of which may be termed the grip portion which is provided with a slot or kerf to receive the end of bottom 11 of a panel 10. This kerf is of a depth corresponding to the length of bottom 11, that is to be bent upwardly at 11 in FIG- URES 1, l0 and ll, and the tool at the kerf is of the same width as bottom 11 of the panel.

it will be understood that changes and modifications can be made Without departing from the scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A marquee or the like to be mounted with one edge secured to a wall, comprising a plurality of elongated interlocked panels each comprising a bottom and upstanding side walls forming a relatively deep trough lengthwise of the panel, said panels being arranged to lie in planes normal to the Wall on which the marquee is to be mounted, and having the bottom and side walls of each panel adjacent said wall bent upwardly to form a darn, assembling means comprising a flange overlying the said panels and to be secured thereto at their ends adjacent said wall, the width of said flange being suflicient to extend from the panel to a point beyond the bent up bottom and side walls of the panels, and a relatively narrow portion of said means parallel to said flange so spaced from said flange as to underlie the bottoms of said panels, means securing said flange and said relatively narrow portion to the bottoms of said panels, a head extending along said assembling means substantially in the plane of the tops of said interlocked panels, said head being of semi-cylindrical exterior section, a

' strip for securement to the Wall, said strip being provided with a longitudinal groove the walls of which are semicylindrical and complementary to the semi-cylindrical head on said assembling means, said groove and said head being so constructed and arranged that said head can be inserted into said groove when said panels are sloped sharply downwardly from said strip, but cannot be removed from said groove when said panels are positioned to be in a plane approximately normal to said wall, and fascia-gutter means by which the panel ends remote from said wall are secured together and held in a common plane, said fascia-gutter means including a narrow flange overlying said panels, a fascia-face extending downwardly from said flange, a web portion extending upwardly at an angle from the bottom edge of said fascia-face to form a gutter with said fascia-face, the

upper edge of said web portion being provided with a flange to underlie said panel bottoms, and means to secure said flanges to said fascia-gutter to said panels.

2. The marquee of claim 1 in which the narrow flange of said fascia-gutter overlying said panels is provided with stop means spaced from said fascia-face portion, and a hanger is provided comprising a plate to lie against said fascia-face portion with its top edge between said stop means and said fascia-face portion, a strut means extending from said plate, on the side remote from said fascia face, to lie beneath said flange provided at the upper edge of said web, and a strip secured to said plate above said strut adapted to be engaged by a tie rod.

3. The marquee of claim 1 in which the narrow flange of said fascia-gutter overlying said panels is provided with stop means spaced from said fascia face portion against which said panels abut, and including also a fiat reinforcing bar having an upper edge lying between said stop means and said fascia-face portion and extending downwardly against said fascia-face portion and having its lower edge seated between said fascia-face portion and said web portion.

4. The marquee or" claim 1 including also a vertical extension for said fascia means, said extension comprising, a fascia-face plate forming a surface in alignment with the fascia face of said fascia-gutter and having a flange along the lower edge thereof disposed at an angle to said fascia-face plate, a hook-shaped grip on the edge of said flange engaging the said narrow flange of said fasciagutter, to hold said fascia-face plate in position.

References tlited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,811,935 lones Nov. 5, 1957 2,824,474 Lawrence Feb. 25, 1958 2,834,072 Miller May 13, 1958 2,848,765 Showalter Aug. 26, 1958 2,873,698 Hartman et al Feb. 17, 1959 2,998,053 Gilman et a1 Oct. 13, 1959 

1. A MARQUEE OR THE LIKE TO BE MOUNTED WITH ONE EDGE SECURED TO A WALL, COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF ELONGATED INTERLOCKED PANELS EACH COMPRISING A BOTTOM AND UPSTANDING SIDE WALLS FORMING A RELATIVELY DEEP TROUGH LENGTHWISE OF THE PANEL, SAID PANELS BEING ARRANGED TO LIE IN PLANES NORMAL TO THE WALL ON WHICH THE MARQUEE IS TO BE MOUNTED, AND HAVING THE BOTTOM AND SIDE WALLS OF EACH PANEL ADJACENT SAID WALL BENT UPWARDLY TO FORM A DAM, ASSEMBLING MEANS COMPRISING A FLANGE OVERLYING THE SAID PANELS AND TO BE SECURED THERETO AT THEIR ENDS ADJACENT SAID WALL, THE WIDTH OF SAID FLANGE BEING SUFFICIENT TO EXTEND FROM THE PANEL TO A POINT BEYOND THE BENT UP BOTTOM AND SIDE WALLS OF THE PANELS, AND A RELATIVELY NARROW PORTION OF SAID MEANS PARALLEL TO SAID FLANGE SO SPACED FROM SAID FLANGE AS TO UNDERLIE THE BOTTOMS OF SAID PANELS, MEANS SECURING SAID FLANGE AND SAID RELATIVELY NARROW PORTION TO THE BOTTOMS OF SAID PANELS, A HEAD EXTENDING ALONG SAID ASSEMBLING MEANS SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE PLANE OF THE TOPS OF SAID INTERLOCKED PANELS, SAID HEAD BEING OF SEMI-CYLINDRICAL EXTERIOR SECTION, A STRIP FOR SECUREMENT TO THE WALL, SAID STRIP BEING PROVIDED WITH A LONGITUDINAL GROOVE THE WALLS OF WHICH ARE SEMICYLINDRICAL AND COMPLEMENTARY TO THE SEMI-CYLINDRICAL HEAD ON SAID ASSEMBLING MEANS, SAID GROOVE AND SAID HEAD BEING SO CONSTRUCTED AND ARRANGED THAT SAID HEAD CAN BE INSERTED INTO SAID GROOVE WHEN SAID PANELS ARE SLOPED SHARPLY DOWNWARDLY FROM SAID STRIP, BUT CANNOT BE REMOVED FROM SAID GROOVE WHEN SAID PANELS ARE POSITIONED TO BE IN A PLANE APPROXIMATELY NORMAL TO SAID WALL, AND FASCIA-GUTTER MEANS BY WHICH THE PANELS ENDS REMOTE FROM SAID WALL ARE SECURED TOGETHER AND HELD IN A COMMON PLANE, SAID FASCIA-GUTTER MEANS INCLUDING A NARROW FLANGE OVERLYING SAID PANELS, A FASCIA-FACE EXTENDING DOWNWARDLY FROM SAID FLANGE, A WEB PORTION EXTENDING UPWARDLY AT AN ANGLE FROM THE BOTTOM EDGE OF SAID FASCIA-FACE TO FORM A GUTTER WITH SAID FASCIA-FACE, THE UPPER EDGE OF SAID WEB PORTION BEING PROVIDED WITH A FLANGE TO UNDERLIE SAID PANEL BOTTOMS, AND MEANS TO SECURE SAID FLANGES TO SAID FASCIA-GUTTER TO SAID PANELS. 